Very Strange File Count After ML - self healing

[RobertJ]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Yeah, the thing I would have thought was the local snapshot. I mean, there are other things that'll take up space, but not this kind of thing with lots of files. Kind of weird.

Very weird since the approximate 400k files that have vanished didn't, based on Disk Utility and SD, take up any space.

My machine is running fine and SD now does a Smart Backup in about 5 minutes. I still would like to understand this but likely will never figure it out.